To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Jackson Miss
March 14th [18]95
Mr. C.A. Williams
Dry Grove
Dear Cammie-
Your P/C received this morning and I was much comforted to know that mama is improving. When ever I hear mama's being sick I am always uneasy as I know that mama is getting old now and sickness of any kind is dangerous with old people.
I have been thinking for some time of writing you but one thing and then another kept me from it. You know I have been busy enough since I came back to school in order to go on with my classes. I am very well up now and have some spare time, which I try to use as profitably as I know how. I have been reading some good books

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Jackson Miss
March 14th [18]95
Mr. C.A. Williams
Dry Grove
Dear Cammie-
Your P/C received this morning and I was much comforted to know that mama is improving. When ever I hear mama's being sick I am always uneasy as I know that mama is getting old now and sickness of any kind is dangerous with old people.
I have been thinking for some time of writing you but one thing and then another kept me from it. You know I have been busy enough since I came back to school in order to go on with my classes. I am very well up now and have some spare time, which I try to use as profitably as I know how. I have been reading some good books
[page 2]
and I suppose that is about as improving as most anything. What spare time I have had so far I have put on reading some of Dickens' novels-"Oliver Twist" "David Copperfield", "Tale of Two Cities" and "Dombey and Son", which are typical realistic literature and were I asked to give my opinion on these books I think I should say of all these great books the greatest is "Dombey and Son". I read one of Oliver Wendell Holmes' book "Elsie Venner", a "medicated" novel, which impressed me more than any book I have read this year. It is a book that will cause you to think and wonder and cause a desire to know something about medicine. You should read it by all means. If it were mine I would send it to you. Its purpose is to illustrate the inheritance of original sin and show its effects &c. I read for the first time-"Last Days of Pompeii" and enjoyed it. Bulwer is the novelist in my eyes. I never get a chance to read
[page 3]
while I am at Terry-my business is so unlike yours-you read some every day-while I never have an opportunity of reading at all in the Winter months only on Sundays and after being at work all the week I feel like-in Bobs' words-"raising hell" on Sunday.
I read that book which the novel reading element of the literary class of America are so crazy about-"Trilby" and I might say that I was agreeably surprised in the book as I expected it to be something similar to the books which usually cause such a craze-such as "Ships that pass in the night", but I really enjoyed the book and think it good-in fact as good as any book I have read lately. Enough to show you it is good-it does not end like that great book "Ships that pass in the night," which Helen Bolls thought was incomparable, by a buggy running over its heroine, Trilby never came to such a sublime and pathetic
[page 4]
as did "Bernadine". If Trilby did not cost so much I would buy it and send it to you but it costs $1.75 and can't be bought cheaper. I borrowed a book and read it-from Tom Ford. Enough about this topic so I shall change the thought.
Y.M.C.A. Convention meets here in Jaxon this week and we have a holiday tomorrow, which give [sic] us an opportunity to attend. Dr Murrah delivers the address of welcome.
You may write me soon as you feel inclined and tell me what every thing and everybody is doing. I know nothing of the "current comment" as I am shut off from that.
Much love to all home folks
Yours
Mims

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Jackson Miss
March 14th [18]95
Mr. C.A. Williams
Dry Grove
Dear Cammie-
Your P/C received this morning and I was much comforted to know that mama is improving. When ever I hear mama's being sick I am always uneasy as I know that mama is getting old now and sickness of any kind is dangerous with old people.
I have been thinking for some time of writing you but one thing and then another kept me from it. You know I have been busy enough since I came back to school in order to go on with my classes. I am very well up now and have some spare time, which I try to use as profitably as I know how. I have been reading some good books